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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Jim alerted to the coming lightning storm?
(a) He feels a change in the atmosphere and smells ozone.
(b) He has an astute observation of birds.
(c) He understands clouds and thunderheads.
(d) He goes into a trance and sees a vision of the coming storm.

2. How does Huck's practical joke on Jim backfire?
(a) Jim is bitten by an actual snake.
(b) Huck is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(c) Jim is so angry that he attacks Huck.
(d) Jim turns the tables by putting live coals in Huck's bed.

3. How many logs worth selling do Pap and Huck find?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Ten.

4. What does Huck do with the canoe when he reaches Jackson's Island?
(a) He conceals it under willow branches.
(b) He scuttles it.
(c) He hauls it way up the bank and hides it in some woods.
(d) He lets it drift down the river.

5. What first alerts Mrs. Loftus to the fact that 'Sarah/Mary' is a boy?
(a) He doesn't walk daintily in a dress.
(b) His fingernails are dirty.
(c) She sees that he has some fuzz on his cheeks and chin.
(d) Huck does not thread a needle in a feminine way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea is it that Huck and his friends don't fully understand [when forming their gang and making plans]?

2. Whose idea of the after-life does Huck favor?

3. Which people did Huck and Tom intend to ambush?

4. Where, on the island, do Huck and Jim hide their belongings?

5. What convinces the ferry captain to investigate the sinking ship?

(see the answer key)

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